NASA is pressing pause on its planned Lunar Gateway space station, redirecting resources and attention toward putting astronauts on the Moon’s surface as fast as possible. The agency laid out the shift during its all-day “Ignition: NASA’s Plan for the Moon” event on March 24,

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The PICTURE-D instrument lifts off from Fort Sumner, New Mexico on Oct. 1, 2025.

Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College (A-B Tech) is one of 20 schools selected to send a science experiment into outer space this year.

The people of Earth have aspirations to return to the Moon and eventually colonize Mars, two places where oxygen isn't exactly in abundance.

For deep-space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, one deceptively simple question drives some of NASA’s most complex engineering challenges: How do you keep enough fuel cold—and stable—long enough to use it? That problem is at the center of ...

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two missions NASA selected Feb. 5 for its Earth System Explorer program. Credit: Lanteris Space Systems WASHINGTON — NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to shut it down. This mission, named OSIRIS-APEX, was one ...

Lawmakers defended NASA research efforts Wednesday at a hearing on President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the space agency. A bipartisan group of senators urged the White House on Wednesday to preserve NASA’s science portfolio during a hearing to vet ...